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.... .. - ,)flrgSaiMW'iH JOIN THE RED CROSS. IT NEEDS YOU. ttfrfrfrfrttfrfrtttft A Year's Subscription 5 to the I -ALL THE NEWS Most of the Time; Most of the News ALL THE TIME" 1 Post-Dispatch will make adandy Xmas gift. Try it Vol. 2. No. 4 ROCKINGHAM, N. C, MONDAY Afternoon, DECEMBER 23, 1918. $1.50 PER YEAR Schools Next Monday. The influenzasituation through out Richmond county, and in the city, has so far improved as to permit the city schools to reopen next Monday, Dec. 30th. Also the churches of the city are now allowed to re-open, as well as the picture show. Very few cases of flu are re ported in the city and none of a very serious nature. General News Items. Squire Fry, of Carthage, has performed 141 marriage cere monies., In the recent Methodist con ference at Goldsboro, the Creed was changed by a vote of 100 to 59, whereby the words "Christ's Holy Church." Six merchants of Troy and two of Star were required to close their stores for a day for viola tion of the food rules; they sold flour at a too high margin of pro fit. Gov. Bickett last Thursday ap pointed Owen H. Guion, of New Bern, as successor to Judge H. W. Whedbee, of the Fifth Judical District, who resigned. It be tr. -.V . T .. - . VS'.AiwO UiWU I b Julli .IOC. . Sheriff Blalock, of Stanly coun ty, last Thursday settled with the State Treasurer for his 1918 taxes, he being the second sheriff in the State to make settlement. The amount was $18,704.85. President Wilsou will go to England Thursday;' arriving 'at Dover at 12:10 rk m. ' He will be entertained by the King, given public functions, and between times hold important conferences. He will return to Paris Dec. 31st Dr. J. Y. Joyner, for 17 years Supt. of Public Instruction for the State, has resigned, and Gov. Bickett has appointed Prof. E. C. Brooks, of Trinity College, as his successor. This takes effect Jan. 1st. Dr. Joyner gave as his reason the need of-a rest, and the necessity of attending to his private business. Jim Wilcox was last Friday pardoned by Gov, Bickett, and is now a free man. He was con victed in 1902 and sentenced to the Den f or 30 years: he has served over 15 years without a mark against his record. Nellie CroDsev. of Elizabeth City, dis appeared from her home at 1105 p. m. Nov. 20, 1901, and her body was found floating in the river 37 days later, he was her suitor and wacharged witii her UCClUl. The paper wishes it could get the names of ALL the boys of the county who are returning home from the service. When your soldier-son returns, or if he has already returned, write the naner. rivine the name of his company . and regiment, from what camp and date of discharge. ' ' 4 I Marriage Licenses. Six marriage licenses were is sued test Saturday: col., issued 21st. John P. Walden andLina n rol 91 fit. Sut- Henry Crouch and Maggie Lit tle, col. 21st Jake Dockery and Ida M. Grif fin. col, 21st jas. LeRoy McKay and Thelma R. Marks, white, iBsued 21st - . Ernest Hart and Bessie McAs kill col, 21st Charlie Chiphn in Tiiley's Punctured Romance," at Star picture show Tuesday and Chris cas$ Dry. Christmas Paragraphs. It is sad to note that the aver age Christmas stocking is longer than most purses. Money gets tight the same as well, we won't call names along about Christmas time. It really requires a marvelous amount of tact to appear thankful at Christmas for something you didn't want. A nice, easy exercise for Christ mas Day is counting the change you have left. It can generally be done with one hand. Just because your wife tells you to buy her something useful, don't think she will be satisfied if you send her home a barrel of flour. Use a little judgment in buy ing Christmas presents. Don't give your girl a pair of No. 8 boots, or purchase a looking-glass for a blind aunt. The person who shall do the most to cheer the hearts of the needy poor will have the merriest Christmas and the happiest New ear. lry it and see. Ice Plant The Dockery-Allen Co. will have a 20-ton ice plant in opera tion by May 1st, in West, Rock ingham. The company will also have, a feiter-jamng plant in operation by that time. A year's subscription to the Post-Dispatch would make a splendid Xmas gift. Better send it to some friend or relative for a year. Call or phone the Post-Dispatch Tuesday and let us have this year's subscription; a card will be sent by the paper, notify ing the recipient of the gift and the name of the giver. m ' Merry Christmas From . The Rockingham Red Cross Chapter wishes to extend the Christmas Greetings to 'the re turned soldiers, and bid them each and all a hearty welcome home. Tne organization is at their disposal. Call on us; .'tis a pleasure to be of service. Rockingham Red Cross Chapter. Mrs. T. F. Boyd, of Hamlet received a letter a few days ago from her son, Rob' ert C, written Nov. 11th, in which h; stated that he was in action on Nov. 10th, but had come out without a scratch; and was on the firing line on the 11th when the armistice went into effect DEATHS Mrs. Willie Covington Lovelay died at the James hospital Friday morning, after an illness of not quite a week with flu. She had been nursing the late Mrs. Gas que, when taken sick, and was carried to the hospital the Saturday before. Her untimely death is a source of sorrow to many friends. The funeral was held from Zion church Saturday. This makes the 71st death in the county from influ enza. . j ' v . Rev. Henry H. Covington died at the home of Mr. G. Hal Kelly Saturday, aged 76. The interment waa at the family burvinor orround Sunday. . He was well known as "Speaking Henry" Covington. Mrs. Gertie Murphy died at Steele's Mills Sunday: burial at Mizpah this (Monday afternoon.) Walter Hines Page, former ambassador to Great Britian, died at Finehurst batur dav nicht The funeral will be held at Aberdeen Tuesday at 11. Mr. Page was 63 years old. He resigned as ambassador in the summer, ana returned to the SutesOctl2th. y. Geneva Gurganious, 17-year-old daugh e.4 A P ftiironninuft. nf Hamlet, died of Saturday night and wu buried at Marks Creek Chun buwiaj titenwoa, Food Administration. Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 23rd.--In line with the policy it has pursued since the sign ing of the armistice, the State Food Ad ministration is rapidly removing definite regulation effecting the handling and con sumption of food stuffs. It was announ ced today that practically all rules effect ing wheat and corn milling industry have been rescinded effective immediately. Mills will remain under license and be subject to some degree of control, but the regulations fixing a fair price sche dule on feeds, the percentage of extract ion, etc, are removed. Effective Monday, December 23rd, the definite regulations governing public eat ing places are rescinded. The State Food Administrator has written to the 2000 public eating places in North Carolina advising them of the removal of these restrictions, but pointing out that there is even greater need for food conservation now than there would have been at this time had the war continued. The definite restrictions are removed because there is no longer any war necessity for them. The motive for conservation from now on is humanitarian, and, therefore, the mat ter of conservation must be left to the conscience of consumers. On account of the removal of a large number of rules and regulations, and a consequent decrease in the volume of work handled by the Food Administration effectiue January 1 the organization of the Food Administration will be very materially reduced. Already the sugar division has abandoned the field. The State organization, consisting of County, city and township Food Adminis trators, will remain intact, keeping stead fast on the inh until the Food Administra tion auluiiialicaiiy goes out vvitli the coming of formal peace. The chief activity of the Food Adminis tration, until the signing of the treaty of peace, will be the preventing of specula tion and profiteering inessential products and the direction and promotion of such a degree of food conservation as will en-, able America to fulfill its pledge to export 20,000,000 tons of foodstuffs to starving European nations. V, , Because of the necessity for the con tinued control of food prices and profits, the Food Administration will maintain a sufficient inspection force in the State to detect and punish any merchants who are disposed to take advantage of the World food situation in order to profiteer. The schedule ot wholesale and retail profits promulgated by the Food Adminis tration remain effective, and will no doubt be effective until the treaty of Deace is formally signed. The schedule of prices on cottonseed and .cottonseed products it is indicated will also remain unchanged. Cotton on R'ham market to day 25 l-2c for middling. New York market up 60 points, spots closing at 32.10. Miss Lee Aycock arrived Fri day to SDend the holidays with Mrs. E. G. Scott. Mr. E. B. Barbee, of Norlina, arrives tonight to spend two days Mrs. T. F. Stanback and Miss Pauline Stanback are spending the winter in Wadesboro. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Galloway, Of Greenville, are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. John Allred. Ray Baucom came home Sun day to visit his family. He will return to Chester; Pa., Friday night Hervey B. Coppedge returned from New York Sunday. He will 4 a? resume rus Koute sauries in a few days. Mr. Joe Brigman has substituted for him dunns h absence. A letter from S. T. Snead. Battery A, 316th F. A, to his wife, dated Nov. 25th, says unfortunately for him he did not get into actual fighting. He describe 4 the country; how the people live in vil lages, instead of on farms, going out 10 their work each dav: villages ue as close as two and three . miles. Ali houses of stone. ..v , ' A wire last Thursday to Mrs. Ernest J. Allred stated that her husband had been released by his German caDtors. and was a&rain with the 318th Machine Gun till, ttlst division. tie waa ' capttjrea NOT. Vta RED CROSS CAMPAIGN Christmas Roll Call for New Members, and Renewals Coming Nicely. Have YOU Joined? You Are Needed. "A Heart and a Dollar." The campaign now underway to secure new members and re newals from old members for the Red Cross Chapter is progress ing nicely, despite the Christmas rush and the handicap of influ enza in many sections, i The community that so far has done the best is Midway. That mill village to date (Monday) had enrolled 96 members, and they are working with 125 as their goal. They'll reach it, too. They have the' pep and spirit, down there. The Steele's Mills com munity is alive with the Red Cross spirit, also. M. L. Tucker Saturday secured 70 members, and workers there expect to bring this well above a hundred by tomorrow. A booth was placed at the postoffice in the city Friday, and 200 have been enrolled that way. A canvass of the city has secured several hundred more. To date the total numhpr of new mprn- bers and renewal members, for I the year 1919, is 500. This is not quite half what the Chapter had enrolled the past year, and so much energetic work is neces sary to make our Chapter not be a laggard. Many folks misunderstand about joining. They thinlc by having joined last year or last summer that their membership carries them into next year. This is a mistake. Unless they joined since Sept. 1st, they are not mem bers now, but they are earnestly asked to renew for 1919. If you have not joined, send your membership fee of $1, to Treasurer J. LeGrand Everett The Post-Dispatch wishes the full list of members by next week so they can be published That Label Again. The subscriptions of nearly 200 subscribers expire January 1st. We urge you to look at your label, and renew if it shows your subscription has about expired. The paper is on a strictly cash basis. No pay, no paper. Ellerbe Streets and Walks. The sidewalks of Ellerbe are the streets. The material is es pecially good. 2bn1 ddr mabiV Itt the 0brt to tok core ef fh tnoog 4num& on tttc QJkuikmatfmm tsfroln fhcmt tttfltdrntrtiig powXank aceowA. II ha taken Kmc and cr B&MmtB 10 (HUM fch Deposits made op, or before January 6th, will draw interest from the first, the INTEREST being credited April first. SAFETY DEPOSIT POHES for rent. THIS BANK 13 OPEN EVERY SATURDAY UlTTIL FIVE O'CLOCK The Richmond County Savings Bank, Rockingham, N. C. CAPITAL.-l.-;. $15,000.00 ' SURPLUS -..$15,000.00 W L. PARSONS. President WTLLIAM ENTWISTLE, Vice President W, 1. SCALES, Cashier OCTAVIA S. SCALES, Asst Cashier. County Financial Statement. This issue of the Post-Dispatch contains 16 pages, seven of which contain the county's annual fi nancial statement, together with the Clerk of Court's witness fee statement. File it away for refer ence. Post-Dispatch Earlier. The Post-Dispatch is being printed on Monday afternoon of this week, instead of on Thurs day. The paper is issued earlier in order that the paper's "force" may enjoy the Christmas season without let or hindrance. Carriers on the Job. The postoffice will observe Sunday hours Christmas Day but the Carriers will make their rounds as usual. It is not a Nat ional holiday. The stores and banks, as is their custom, will be closed Wed nesday. Here and There. The Post -Dispatch wants EVERY part of Richmond county represented in this paper. We welcome correspondence from every mm viiiei4e,tvciy j. r. every town and every school in the county. We want soldier-let-1 ters from the rich, from the poor, from white and black. The Post Dispatch endeavors to be a med ium for the entire county and we will be glad for YOU to take this as a personal invitation- toft write up your local happenings, or phone them to the paper. Our phone is 182 and this office is no further from you than your phone! Last Saturday was shortest day in the year; days will gradually lengthen from now on; and, ac cording to proverbial wisdom, the cold will begin to strengthen. The weather so far this season has been the mildest of any win ter in many years. General Fight. Kenny McLean, Clyde Ingram, Sebert and Bascum Howell en gaged in a fight in Boggan's res taurant Saturday night s about 10:30. Sebert Howell . received a stab in the arm, while 'Bascum was cut across the face and a- cross the abdoment; the latter was carried to the James hospi tal for treatment. McLean re ceived a bruise over the eye, The matter will be aiied before May or McNair Friday at night 8. cm IIWII -uvh vw wriuhuw ivmiihu inh mtinr QwA Wt&es ft ii3anh arc v and a ccuung nsav of vrasfwriU), health SIXTY-NINTH INTEREST DAYMENN The 69th interest quarter begins at the ONLY SAVINGS BANK in the county en January first Cotton Ginned. Number of bales of cotton gin ned in Richmond county to Dec. 13th was 13,597, as compared with 9,662 to same date last year. Cotton ginned throughout the county prior to Dec. 13th was 10, 252,402 running bales, including 139,094 round bales, 12,793 bales of American Egyptian, and 31,060 bales of Sea Island. Buyers, Not Shoppers. Even the casual obseiver is impressed with the fact that those who have visited the stores of the city the past few days, have been buyers, not shoppers. The pre-holiday trade has been splendid. For a couple of months the fall trade was hampered by the flu, but the crowded stores re cently have relegated the flu depression. Despite the cloudy weather, the streets Saturday were crowded. The high cost of living is hav ing no pronounced effect in slack ening the demand for merchan dise. While the buying power of the dollar is less than formerly the earning power has increased until the weekly wage now will bv" r.lrr.c:': ?.c rr.uch tz 'vould the weekly wage when pnees were far lower. Money is chang ing hands as of yore and every body seems contented and happy. Bibles on Sale. An association was formed here while the draft was oh, through which small bibles were presented each soldier. When the draft ceased, the association had on hand about 150 of these testaments. These have been placed on sale at Miss Legg's, Scott's Pharmacy, Fox's, Watson King, and Whitlock's. The pro ceeds from them will be turned over to the Red Cross Chapter. Christmas Gifts We still have the useful kind. Gloves, Ties, Belts, Handkerchiefs, Mufflers, Sweaters and numerous other things. A Merry CHRISTMAS for yoa ALL GARNER & HINSON Phone 214 A 7? I ii 11
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